page_title: List of birds of Kentucky
section_title: Finches, euphonias, and allies
hierarchical_section_title: List of birds of Kentucky / Finches, euphonias, and allies
caption_attribution_description: English: American Goldfinch (Carduelis tristis) in transition to breeding plumage - Ash, North Carolina
context_page_description: This list of birds of Kentucky includes species documented in the U.S. state of Kentucky by the Kentucky Bird Records Committee of the Kentucky Ornithological Society through December 2017. Three additional species have been accepted by the KBRC but not yet added to the published list, and one more species has been documented but not yet assessed by the KBRC. Of these 391 species, 101 are classed as accidental and six were introduced to North America. Four are extinct and three have been extirpated. An additional nine species are hypothetical as defined below. Birds that are considered probable escapees, although they may have been sighted flying free, are not included.
  This list is presented in the taxonomic sequence of the Check-list of North and Middle American Birds, 7th edition through the 61st Supplement, published by the American Ornithological Society. Common and scientific names are also those of the Check-list, except that the common names of families are from the Clements taxonomy because the AOS list does not include them.
  The following tags are used to designate some species:
  Accidental - A species on the Kentucky review list, for which the KOS requires documentation
context_section_description: Order: Passeriformes   Family: Fringillidae
  Finches are seed-eating passerine birds, that are small to moderately large and have a strong beak, usually conical and in some species very large. All have twelve tail feathers and nine primaries. These birds have a bouncing flight with alternating bouts of flapping and gliding on closed wings, and most sing well. Ten species have been recorded in Kentucky.
  Evening grosbeak, Coccothraustes vespertinus (A)
  Pine grosbeak, Pinicola enucleator (H)
  House finch, Haemorhous mexicanus (Native to the southwestern U.S.; introduced in the east)
  Purple finch, Haemorhous purpureus
  Common redpoll, Acanthis flammea (A)
  Red crossbill, Loxia curvirostra (A)
  White-winged crossbill, Loxia leucoptera (A)
  Pine siskin, Spinus pinus
  Lesser goldfinch, Spinus psaltria (A)
  American goldfinch, Spinus tristis
caption: American goldfinch
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